Category: Patient Safety

Believe it or not, the answer to the question this article’s headline poses has been debated for at least the past 20...

Improving Patient Care Through Nurse Wellbeing Taking care of those who care for patients is becoming a higher priority for many healthcare...

Building Magnet Recognition in Nursing Programs The Magnet Model is the next generation Magnet Recognition Program from the American Nurses Credentialing Center...

During a recent work group meeting with a hospital client, Vitalacy reviewed a month’s worth of data gathered by dispenser sensor tags...

I noticed a commentary published in Modern Healthcare (2019) by Ann Marie Benedicto, the vice president of the Joint Commission Center for...

A group of staffers at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle began what would turn out to be an eye-opening experience with a...

Health care and sports have more in common than you might think, especially in regard to performance and workflow improvement. Improving performance...

My wife was hospitalized recently and, while spending time with her, I couldn’t help but notice how much time the nurses and...

Understanding the real-time workflow patterns of your nurses is crucial toward achieving high reliability in health care. Through their movements during the...

The best experience for a patient is to receive effective treatment without harm, and then to go home feeling better. In an...